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[|www.Michellemalkin.com] , [|www.Dailykos.com]  , and [|www.thoughtmechanics.com] . Steven Johnson’s blog ( [|www.stevenberlinjohnson.com]  ) is a good example of a hybrid personal blog and one that authors Lankshear and Knobel have followed quite regularly since it began.  **Insider Mindset.** Similar to the term ‘digital native’ but preferred by Lankshear and Knobel who differentiate between Mindset 1 (aka ‘newcomers’) and Mindset 2 (‘insiders). This distinction marks off those who ‘understand the Internet, virtual concepts and the IT world generally’ from those who do not’ (Barlow, in Tunbridge, 1995: 2)  **Literacy** (today and as social practice). Scribner and Cole say “that literacy is not a matter of knowing how to read and write a particular kind of script but, rather, a matter of ‘applying this knowledge for specific purposes in specific contexts of use’. This means that literacy is really like a family of practices – literacies – that will include such ‘socially evolved and patterened activities’ as letter writing, keeping records and inventories, keeping a diary, writing memos, posting announcements and so on.’  **Machinima. **P ronounced [|/məˈʃiːnɨmə/] or /məˈʃɪnɨmə/) is the use of real-time [|three-dimensional] (3-D) graphics [|rendering] engines to generate [|computer animation]. The term also refers to works that incorporate this animation technique. Machinima-based artists, sometimes called machinimists or machinimators, often use graphics engines from [|video games], a practice that arose from the animated software introductions of the 1980s [|demoscene] .
 * Hybrid Blogs. **In hybrid blogs, post involve a combination of links plus commentary with content that is more like journaling. This category of blogs is extremely diverse and many of Technorati’s top ranked blogs (March 2006) are of the this kind (e.g., <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[|www.BoingBoing.net] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ,